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CON$ are soooooo STUPID they don't even know when they are making fools of themselves.What an idiot you are.I love it!The even funnier aspect of his playing the strawman card is that the strawman argument is one where it is expected that all will agree with the strawman.
Thus, my points, if they are strawmen, are true to most.
Too funny.
A Straw Man of the Straw Man fallacy.
Fallacy: Straw Man
Fallacy: Straw Man Description of Straw Man
The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person.
[*]Person A has position X.
[*]Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
[*]Person B attacks position Y.
[*]Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.
From YOUR own link :
Perhaps the easiest place to find straw man arguments is in the political sphere. One very effective straw man argument is to take a small sound byte from a political candidate and use this to generalize about the person’s ability to hold political office. Using the straw man argument, these sound bytes are often exploited in television and print ads, intentionally casting the candidate in a bad, albeit inaccurate, light. Although most voters can and will see through the straw man argument, many will accept the argument as truth, and allow it to sway their opinion.
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